Category Archives: Newsroom
The Puzzling Popularity of Back Surgery in Certain Regions
April 4, 2017the New York Times | The New Health Care | By AUSTIN FRAKT and JONATHAN SKINNER | FEB. 13, 2017 You might think that once drugs, devices and medical procedures
Physician Appointment Wait Times Up 30% from 2014
April 4, 2017Health Leaders | John Commins | March 21, 2017 The survey found that the average rate of physician Medicare acceptance is 85% in the 15 large metro markets and 81%
Markups On Care Can Fatten Hospital Budgets — Even If Few Patients Foot The Full Bill
April 4, 2017KHN Kaiser Health News | By Chad Terhune April 3, 2017 Few patients pay a hospital’s full price for a procedure or test. But a new study shows why those
The CT Department of Health Adverse Event Report was released and it is not great news for patients
November 4, 2016I was recently interviewed for this story, Medical Errors Decline 3 Percent In 2015, on medical errors in Connecticut. Three percent is not enough. We must keep raising peoples awareness that patient
Let’s involve Connecticut patients in reducing medical errors
March 15, 2016Lisa Freeman, Connecticut Center for Patient Safety, Executive Director March 13 through 18 is National Patient Safety Awareness Week. As I sit here, thinking of what to write, stories of the people
Number of hospital accidents not getting any better
February 11, 2016Watch Jean Rexford’s February 10th interview with Eric Parker,WFSB’s iTeam Investigative reporter. The discussion centered on the recently released CT Adverse Event report which addressed a total of 471 reports
Can the state build a better system to get your medical records to your doctors?
May 15, 2015With providers moving to electronic medical record systems, they often still don’t “talk” to each other. Just think how much safer your care could be if all of your providers
10 Things Your Doctor Won’t Tell You…
January 10, 2015Did you know that common objects like stethoscopes in a hospital can be contaminated with disease-causing germs? Or that the best time to schedule surgery is during banking hours? 10
Hospital Reports Of Surgical, Medication Errors Climb
January 6, 2015Connecticut Health I-Team By: Lisa Chedekel | 1/6/2015 | Connecticut hospitals reported record numbers of patients killed or seriously injured by hospital errors in 2013, with large increases in the
The Right Exam, The Right Way, The Right Radiation Dose
July 3, 2014Jean Rexford, along with Rosemary Gibson, Stephen Smith, John Santa and other supporters of national patient safety efforts, are contributors to an article just published in the March, 2014 JournalPatientSafety.com: